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That's Very Generous Of Them
Russia says they'll help us build a moon base, if we provide them with funding.
Sorry, I think we tried the foreign aid bit back in the nineties on ISS. As I recall, the result was late deliveries of hardware, and a proliferation of dachas, Mercedes, and Cayman accounts.
Posted by Rand Simberg at December 06, 2006 10:20 AM
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And that was just the payloads delivered by the shuttle!
Posted by Adrasteia at December 6, 2006 10:37 AM
What is the Cyrillic equivalent to KMA?
Posted by Cecil Trotter at December 6, 2006 10:50 AM
When you posted the "No Blood for Cheese" satire, this is the part that truly concerned me as being the truth that made the satire work:
The administration assures us that they will form an international coalition to explore the moon
If that suggestion ever comes up, I only hope that it truly is a smokescreen. It would be far cheaper to give free passage and access to the moon after we get there than to try and handle the complexity of "working" together. NASA bureaucracy is bad enough without including DoS and foreign national buraeucracies.
My $.02.
Posted by Leland at December 6, 2006 11:58 AM
Anyone else notice the caption under the articles accompanying photo?
"The permanently sunlit half of the Moon opens up good opportunities for electricity generation..."
Posted by Cecil Trotter at December 6, 2006 12:44 PM
Well, the moon has to have a dark side, right? Pink Floyd wouldn't lie.
Posted by lmg at December 6, 2006 01:03 PM
"Well, the moon has to have a dark side, right? Pink Floyd wouldn't lie."
If you listen to the Album, the old man explains it is all dark.
Posted by Mike Puckett at December 6, 2006 02:43 PM
What if you play it backwards?
Posted by Big D at December 6, 2006 04:32 PM
Thats hard on the vinyl.
More fun to synch it to 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Posted by Mike Puckett at December 6, 2006 04:46 PM
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